In keeping with the Black History Month theme...Jazz.
Jazz originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues & ragtime.
As I like my reggae Dubbed & my funk(psych)Adelic, I like my jazz Free. Free your jazz & your mind will follow.
Jazz was always a break-through for improvisation in music & thus created freedom. Yet jazz was mired deeply in a swamp of strict structures. Free jazz broke free from that morass into an open space of "free tonality" in which meter, beat, & formal symmetry no longer applied.
The first major stirrings came in the 1950s with the early work of Ornette Coleman (whose 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation coined the term).
So in honor of breaking free from formal symmetry, I'll both start & end this chapter with the O.C...Sir Ornette Coleman.
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Lato 1 -
Lonely Woman
Monsieur le Prince
Lato 2 -
Forgotten Children
Buddah Blues
The Unprecedented Cast: Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, trumpet, & shanai; Charles Haden & David Izenzon - bass; & Ed Blackwell - drums. All written by Ornette.
side A -
Don's Dawn
AY
side B -
ITT
NY E & E Crew: Albert Ayler - tenor saxophone; Don Cherry - trumpet; John Tchicai - alto saxophone; Roswell Rudd - trombone; Gary Peacock - bass; & Sonny Murray - drums.
Another one from ESP 1966...
side A -
Strange Uhuru
Lacy's Out East
side B -
Three Spirits
Black Mysticism
Composition 23E
Composition 8C
Composition -1
Composition -2
Composition 8G
Four Winds
Side 1 -
To Know What You Know
Harmolodic Bebop
Sex Spy
Side 2 -
City Living
See-Thru
Compute
The Prime Time Crew: Bern Nix & Charles Ellerbee - guitar; Albert MacDowell & Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass; & Denardo Coleman & Sabir Kamal - drums.
Enjoy,
NØ
